"...The history of flu vaccination suggests other reasons to doubt claims that it dramatically reduces mortality. In 2004, for example, vaccine production fell behind, causing a 40 percent drop in immunization rates. Yet mortality did not rise. In addition, vaccine “mismatches” occurred in 1968 and 1997: in both years, the vaccine that had been produced in the summer protected against one set of viruses, but come winter, a different set was circulating. In effect, nobody was vaccinated. Yet death rates from all causes, including flu and the various illnesses it can exacerbate, did not budge. Sumit Majumdar, a physician and researcher at the University of Alberta, in Canada, offers another historical observation: rising rates of vaccination of the elderly over the past two decades have not coincided with a lower overall mortality rate. In 1989, only 15 percent of people over age 65 in the U.S. and Canada were vaccinated against flu. Today, more than 65 percent are immunized. Yet death rates among the elderly during flu season have increased rather than decreased..."
From Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Influenza Vaccine: Review of Effectiveness of the U.S. Immunization Program"The results of the present study appear to be similar to those
obtained by the CDC in a recent analysis of the population efficacy
of the 2003-2004 influenza vaccine. The CDC determined that
immunization with the 2003-2004 influenza vaccine offered
negligible population protection against developing influenza-like
illnesses, and that in some of their methods of analysis there were
results, which, though not significant at the 95% confidence level,
indicated that influenza vaccination was associated with an
increased risk of developing influenza-like illnesses."
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